Thanks so much :)

Cheers Peter, really appreciate it mate – this is easily my best one yet.

Nah I haven’t tried any of that, not sure on the formula etc.

Not sure mate, but I know I can have the front of the lens within 2-3cm of the subject and still get it in focus – but I can’t use the flash with this as the lens + tubes makes it so long that it blocks out the built-in flash on top of the body.

I should add so I probably need to be at least 20cm or so away from the subject so I don’t get a shadow from my lens being in the way of the flash. If I had an external flash held to the side, or no flash at all, I can get some serious magnification. Some good high iso performance would be EXCELLENT here, be able to do more flash-less work.

Sure is mate, it probably comes out about 30cm or more from the body, depending on how far the zoom is extended for “focus”.. haha!

Took me a minute to figure out you meant it was the lens/macro setup that looks ridiculous, hehe :) Thanks bub, glad you like this – very happy with how it turned out.. I wish it was easier to get results like this with my monstrosity, haha.

You’re doing particularly well at that lately :P

Ta Georgie, probably my most successful one so far :)

Thanks so much for the feature, glad you like it! Thanks.

Thanks Micci. But no I’m fairly certain it’s motherly love right there, I watched these 2 for a long time and she wasn’t eating anything. Also, the young one is another female too as the males facial colors/pattern differs from the females. Thank you again :)

Many thanks, glad you like it. :)

I understand, thanks again!

Thanks Phil, appreciate your comments as always. It was certainly a great find, thank you again.

Thanks again Mia, I appreciate your support :)

Thank you Trish, very pleased you like it. :)

Thanks Sharon, but far from it! I didn’t even know these guys could bite until I identified them post-shooting. Appreciate your kind comments as always :)

Thank you Brandie, glad you like it – it turned out rather nicely.

Hasn’t happened to me, but I suppose it goes something like that – depends how aggressive they are, would have to intimidate them a bit I’d say.

For tihs one probably about 20cm away – I can actually focus on a subject at about 2-3cm away from the front element, but the length of the lens + tubes get’s in the way of the built-in flash I need to use for most shots since the tubes suck so much light away. If I the ring or twin lite flash setup I could get even better magnification. Not sure of the maths though, haven’t tried to work it out in numbers.

Thanks Heather, appreciate it :)

Yep that’s exactly how it is, aswell as a huge drop in dof and light – but you knew that already. I must say, the IS is a huge lifesaver with this setup, and it works particularly well with this lens.

Oh and also, I might add that on one or two occasions I have managed to use servo AF with this lens. The trick is that you still need to use the zoom ring as if manual focusing it as you normally would, but once you get it in reasonable focus range (and I mean very close to perfectly sharp) AF can SOMETIMES adjust it to optimal focus, under the right lighting.. that last part is the tricky one. Cheers again.

Not a bad idea either mate, will keep it in mind.

Haha thanks Jase, appreciate your comments as always buddy. This one was probably about 3cm long :)

Not sure if it was even fully grown either, I remember the male being about 4cm long, I think.

Thanks Ruth, appreciate it.

Thank you again Edyta, appreciate your kind comments! And I’m sure you could, i’m fairly new to macro aswell so just keep shooting!

Thank you, truly appreciate it :)

Cheers David.

Thanks guys, appreciate it :)

Thank you Raquel, just entered it, and thanks for the feature :)

Ta David.

Thanks again Sharon, much appreciated.

Thanks again mate.

Thanks! Yeah it’s still not too large, this one was probably only about 3cm long, but the male I shot (also in my gallery somewhere) was probably a bit bigger. I’ve only seen this spiders these 2 times, I get the feeling they might grow a little bigger than i’ve seen them, but the other jumpers we have aren’t too big at all. Thanks again :)

Thanks Voltaire, appreciate it as always fella :)

Thanks Jessica, appreciate the kind comment :)

Thanks Dennis, appreciate the comment mate, glad you liked it.

It’s the child, they’re both females, the males have different markings. Also there wasn’t danger of being eaten.. I watched them for quite a while, and it really just looked like she was holding the little one close.

Indeed, and you can never believe it until you see it.. and even then you’re not so sure.

Many thanks again fella, really happy you like it so much. Cheers!